TAG Meeting 2021-05-20
Attendees
First Name | Last Name | Organization |
Rohith | Chintamaneni | Arizona Department of Education |
David | Clements | Ed-Fi Alliance |
Patrick | Devanney | ClassLink |
Rosh | Dhanawade | Indiana University INsite |
Mindy | DuFault | Infinite Campus |
LaQuinta | Extine | Leon County Schools |
Stephen | Fuqua | Ed-Fi Alliance |
Jean-Francois | Guertin | EdWire |
David | Hefley | Nebraska Department of Education |
Eric | Jansson | Ed-Fi Alliance |
Vinaya | Mayya | Ed-Fi Alliance |
Jim | McKay | Instructure |
Chris | Moffatt | Ed-Fi Alliance |
Heather | Potts | Ector County ISD |
Doug | Quinton | PowerSchool |
Daniel | Ralyea | South Carolina Department of Education |
Andrew | Rice | Education Analytics |
Sandi | Roesner | Ector County ISD |
Audrey | Shay | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction |
Sayee | Srinivasan | Ed-Fi Alliance |
Molly | Stewart | Inidiana University INsite |
Patrick | Yoho | InnovateEDU Inc |
Agenda
- Onboarding and kickoff to our year
- TAG members to voice over suggested priorities for the 2021-22 year
- Continue on the topic of how to improve the efficiency with which Level 1 error messages are handled
- Solicit interest in breakouts focused on Ed-Fi data standardization efforts
Materials
Notes
- Onboarding and kickoff to our year (see slides)
- TAG members voice over suggested priorities for the 2021-22 year (see slides)
Topics Proposed
Validation API
Multi Tenancy for Admin App
Specific data model improvements
Improving native Ed-Fi descriptors with proper descriptions
Improving Transcripts / Student Academic Records
Possible analytics domain and contextGreater data standardization (see next slide)
Getting operational context implemented - Operational Context UI
Open source community improvements-Talent directory -A mascot for Ed-Fi-
Improve usability of Ed-Fi API directly from a Web Application
OAuth/OpenID for Ed-Fi API-API Out tools and supportAPI Publisher
Improvements to certification-Greater Granularity on Certification
v3 SIS Certifications around grades. Districts are consistently disappointed to hear that native SIS integrations don't include current term grades-Notable absences-The issue of new suite releases / breaking changes- Continue on the topic of how to improve the efficiency with which Level 1 error messages are handed
- TAG members voiced interest in improving the error messages
- Question: Have you talked to Stack Overflow about a different pricing model for a nonprofit like Ed-Fi?
- One suggestion was to focus on just the most painful areas, instead of tackling whole issue
- One other proposed idea was to try and validate the data on pre-submission to the API; the mechanism for this was not discussed
- Another idea: have API errors link to the community resource we create
- Another idea: when considering a platform wide change, consider looking at opentelemetry.io standards to implement tracing/logging and metrics and replacing log4net by serilog
- Solicit interest in breakouts focused on Ed-Fi data standardization efforts
Action Items
- Eric to send TAG poll to prioritize topics
- Eric to send survey for Data Standardization subgroup participation